Samba DEBUG in OpenChange

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Dec 9 06:22:51 UTC 2015


On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 06:43:53AM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 02:13:00AM +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > Sorry, but the point of this e-mail thread escapes me. You asked
> > us what we need to fix compatibility with newer versions of Samba, and
> > now you don't like the answer you're telling us we should just fork
> > and go away?
> 
> Initially I thought the issue is mainly about debug. During the thread I
> realized that the integration goes a lot further, OpenChange has a much
> deeper dependency on Samba iternals than I had initially realized. Today
> it's about debug, tomorrow it will be some libndr aspect and next week
> it will be something else. I am just worried that we will break your
> builds in the future without knowing again and again. This is what led
> me to think a fork is your best bet.

No, a fork is a *terrible* idea :-). Let's find
out what OpenChange needs and *communicate* about
how we can make the integration better.

OpenChange isn't asking for an ABI freeze, and
we're not offering one, so I wouldn't worry about
that :-).



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